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...Fogg Art Museum has recently made several important acquisitions by gift and loan which are now on exhibition in the print-room. These include a drawing by the sixteenth century German master Altdorfer, and an etching by Hirschvogel, representing a man in armor. The latter is a very beautiful impression of an excessively rare print. There is no record of its ever having appeared before at a public sale, and no impression of it exists in the British Museum...
Princeton University has recently received, as a gift from an alumnus, a very valuable and complete statistical library which has been in the process of collection since 1880, and consists of the financial reports and statements of railroads and industrial corporations in the United States extending from 1839 to the present time. The collection consists of 5,000 books, 13,000 pamphlets, 39,000 bond and stock circulars, and news clippings mounted on some 70,000 separate sheets. The material is indexed and classified, and has been installed in a separate room in the University Library Building at Princeton...
...Treasurer of the College announced at a recent meeting of the Corporation the receipt of gifts amounting to $155,601.74. This sum includes certain of the gifts announced by the President on Commencement Day, i.e. the gift of the class of 1890 of $80,000. Among the larger new gifts and bequests is $25,000 from the estate of William Endicott '87, the income to be used for the purposes of the Cancer Commission of the University; $23,250 from the estate of Julia M. Moseley, also for the work of the Cancer Commission in the City of Boston...
...spirit of the gift which is important, and which should be noted by the present Freshmen. It should make them realize their duty not only to carry out President Lowell's request in taking good care of the dormitories, but also to use well,--in studies, college activities, and friendships,--the great opportunities which the dormitories give them...
...Yale Corporation has announced a gift to the university of a building for the School of Music, as a memorial to the late Albert Arnold Sprague, of Chicago, a graduate of the class of 1859. The building will be erected on the corner of College and Wall streets, and will contain a library, lecture and practice rooms, and a concert hall. The architect will be Mr. C. A. Coolidge, who designed the freshman dormitories here...